One more thing...

[pyat]

As we wait to find out what fate awaits Parliament, one silver lining is that Governor General Michaëlle Jean has something useful to do, for once. Cause, you know, she's easy on the brain as well as the eyes, not to mention being our most personable and charismatic politician.

As The Globe and Mail put it in an editorial on her installation speech:

"Here is this beautiful young Canadian of Haitian birth, with a smile that makes you catch your breath, with a bemused older husband by her side, and a daughter who literally personifies our future, and you look at them and you think: Yes, this is our great achievement, this is the Canada that Canada wants to be, this is the Canada that will ultimately make way for different cultural identities."

I can't find video of her installation speech on the Youtubes, but here's something in French that sounds nice, whatever it means. :)

EDIT: She decided to suspend Parliament till January, so that the PM can try with a new budget. BOO! BOO! Down with outmoded royalist trappings! Death to the Aristos! Treason! Riot! Revolt! Anti-democracy! Everyone storm the Winter Palace and stand about on tables, waving bits of paper!

;)

Comments

[nottheterritory.livejournal.com]

Well you won't be lonely for long. One way or another, she's going to have to disappoint a significant fraction of the electorate in the next few days. I think it's distinctly possible that the most decisive result of her having to decide the fate of the country will be a movement by the losers (on whichever side of the spectrum they lie) to prevent it ever coming down to the CG's decision again.